Australian House & Garden

Golden age

Few people aspire to have a cannon in their front garden, but it’s certainly a feature that gets noticed. John – who was living in a nearby apartment with his partner, Ann, and their teenage daughter, Mia – had seen the cannon and become enamoured with the 1888 Italianate villa it ‘protected’. “I’d driven past a number of times and could see the home’s potential,” he says. While

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